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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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May 31 04: Progress Report
Greetings from the beginning of chapter 18. I’ve been reading William Gibson’s latest, Pattern Recognition, and it’s fabulous: on the train to and from Port Jefferson today, I laughed out loud, I gasped, I found myself talking back to the book. (“Wait, what? No. What? Oh my god.”) Lovely muscular prose, about cities and jetlag, and about marketing and the commodification of cool, and about communication and obsession and the internet. It’s a thriller, it’s a cultural anthropology, it’s a look back at the last twenty years of pop culture and a peering-into-the-void of wherever the hell it is we’re going now. I kept interrupting Paul’s reading (an issue of Harpers that had been sitting on his ‘read me’ pile since December) to read bits aloud.
Now my internal monologue sounds a lot like Gibson and I’m full of manic energy. I want to read more; I want to sit here and write. Both impulses are good.